XXX Machina is an immersive computational installation examining how artificial intelligence destabilises erotic desire, identity, and intimacy. Operating as an "autonomous desire machine," it generates a recursive stream of deepfake imagery, videos, stills, and 3D renderings of the artist, via diffusion models trained on a custom dataset scraped from AI porn generation platforms. As it tracks and reprocesses recurring themes across prompts, XXX Machina injects traces of previous bodies into its own generative logic, forming unstable visual lineages. What initially resembles conventional pornography begins to fracture on closer inspection: bodies glitch, fragment, and recombine, detaching from coherent corporeal referents and becoming increasingly uncanny.

Philosophically, XXX Machina explores the tension between symbolic lack and algorithmic saturation. Lacan's model of desire, grounded in absence, is destabilised by AI's potential for frictionless gratification—pornography without search, without delay. Yet AI, lacking subjective interiority, offers not desire but its disarticulated residue: warped anatomies, symbolic breakdowns, fragments without bodies. Through this collapse, the work probes whether desire itself is being reshaped by machinic fantasy.

Through a Baudrillardian lens, the installation examines how synthetic imagery precedes and redefines erotic experience, recursively producing desire instead of just mirroring it. In this hyperreal terrain, the erotic is unmoored from flesh and reassembled as an endlessly customisable, algorithmically amplified spectacle. XXX Machina asks what becomes of longing in a system where the Other has already been simulated, and made obsolete.